ptargrep

Find regular expression patterns in tar archive files. More information: https://manned.org/ptargrep.

• Search for a pattern within one or more tar archives:

ptargrep "search_pattern" path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

• Extract to the current directory using the basename of the file from the archive:

ptargrep --basename "search_pattern" path/to/file

• Search for a case-insensitive pattern matching within a tar archive:

ptargrep --ignore-case "search_pattern" path/to/file